Alphington Grammar

With our new podcasting equipment in place and our four local maps recently published, it is an exciting time to join the 3078 History Group. If you are interested in coming along the first meeting will occur in April. The group meets as a rule on the second Tuesday of the month at 7.30pm here at ACC.

The scheduled regular meeting dates through to the end of June will be :

• Tuesday 12 April at 7.30pm

• Tuesday 10 May at 7.30pm and

• Tuesday 14 June at 7.30pm.

At the second meeting on Tuesday 10 May we will run a formal ‘introduction to podcasting’ session, to enable the group to start exploring the possibilities around recording oral histories from locals in the area.

If you are keen to find out more or register to come along you can email us here or call us on 9499 7227 so that we can add you to the group email list.

This week we are starting planning for the Alphington Show.

We’re partnering with Alphington CWA to run this event that celebrates the ‘domestic arts’ … if you are into bread baking, jam making, preserving, knitting and crochet this is your chance to shine! The show also celebrates the home garden … admiring your most impressive vegetables, homegrown eggs and gorgeous flowers … along with celebrating your floristry skills … and cake decorating skills.

We’ll publish the full list of categories shortly,

But in the meantime … finish that beanie you started, dig out your family scone recipe and encourage your children to perfect their lemon slice (and cook their own snack for school lunch at the same time … win/win).

The Alphington Show will run on Saturday 26 March here at ACC.

Lovely to have Cr Sophie Wade pop in with Malcolm and Kathy from Yarra City Council on Friday and join us for morning tea.

Brett shared a beautiful poem with us all and we ate chocolate cake and wagon wheels, and drank Friends of Baucau coffee (you can buy yours from Juliet at the milkbar - and feel happy that you’re supporting great things with each cup you drink!).

After the caffeine/sugar rush I took Sophie on a tour of our house and talked her ear off about all the great community building activities we do and creative programs we run.

Thanks for coming past Sophie. We really appreciate all the support we get and the wonderful partnership we have with Yarra City Council staff and councillors.

Aww … how cute. And such a happy end to a Monday! I spotted this porcelain frog 🐸 in our seed library as I was leaving work - minding some new seed packets donated by an unknown lovely community friend.

Neighbourhoodliness is the best! Thanks Darebin Council for installing our seed library. We love ❤️ it.

Tonight (Sunday) ACC and Friends of Baucau catered the Music in Exile event at the Fairfield Amphitheatre that was put on by Yarra Council and Yarra City Arts.

ACC contributed to planning and made the main course - a grain salad with dolmades and dip and bread … and Friends of Baucau used catering from Taste of Timor for delicious Portuguese tarts and coconut steamed buns and samosas … and we also bought soft drinks and watermelon and zooper doopers … all the essentials for family summer catering!

It was a fabulous event with excellent music. Elsy Wameyo was particularly great (I thought).

Music in Exile is rolling across Yarra this month. If you are keen to attend you can find all the details here.

Thanks Olivia at Yarra Arts for organising such a great event and inviting us to be part of it!